Benchmark Disks NVMe vs SSD SATA vs HDD SATA

Benchmarked with Samsung Magician

DeviceSeq Read
MB/s
Seq Write
MB/s
Random Read
IOPS
Random Write
IOPS
Samsung 980 Pro
1TB NVMe
69205174984130297607
Samsung 980 Pro 2TB NVMe700752401053222924072
Samsung 980 Pro 2TB NVMe
when plugged into a PCIe 4.0 x2 mode
35613514852294835205
Samsung 850 Pro
256GB SATA
5605269497081298
WDC 2003FZEX
2TB SATA
111115238244
Samsung 970 Pro 512GB NVMe35592299362304364476
Intel 660P 2TB NVMe18391938234130226806
Samsung 860 Evo 1TB SATA5615319716786669
WD Red WD40EFRX 4TB SATA146140244488*

Note: the two 980 2TB rows show an important difference: “PCIe 4.0 x4 mode” versus “PCIe 4.0 x2 mode”. The first 980 1TB is also plugged into an “x4 mode”.

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